Technical Lead Consultant - Power Platform

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Australia seeks a Technical Lead Consultant to drive end-to-end Power Platform and AI solution delivery for enterprise customers. You will design, scope, and lead multi-disciplinary teams across onshore/offshore squads, translating customer requirements into robust, scalable solutions.

You will mentor junior consultants, contribute to pre-sales, and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes leveraging Power Platform, Azure services, and AI technologies.

Qualifications

• Extensive Power Platform and AI solution delivery experience.
• Strong architectural and pre-sales capabilities across enterprise projects.
• Proven ability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver Power Platform and AI-based solutions.
• Lead scoping workshops and translate requirements into designs.
• Guide onshore/offshore squads and manage timelines.
• Produce technical designs, specs, and sign-off documentation.
• Support pre-sales with estimates, designs, and offering development.
• Mentor junior consultants and ensure quality delivery.

Skills

Power Platform

Solution architecture

Pre-sales

Leadership

Agile delivery

Education

IT Degree or equivalent

Microsoft D365/Power Platform certification

Tools

Power Apps

Azure

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Apigee X

GCP

Job description

Technical Lead Consultant - Power Platform

• Full-time
• Department: ACE

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together.

We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow.

NCS is significantly expanding its capabilities in intelligent automation and digital transformation. We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Technical Consultant to join our rapidly growing Power Platform and AI Solutions team.

In this pivotal role, you will be the driving force behind the delivery of sophisticated, end-to-end solutions for both our new and existing enterprise customers. This is an exciting opportunity to apply deep technical expertise to solve complex business problems, leveraging the full stack of the Microsoft Power Platform, Azure services, and emerging AI technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Power Platform and AI solutions.
• Facilitate and run scoping and discovery workshops to ensure customer requirements are understood and delivered.
• Shape and lead all ongoing planning, design and technical conversations with our customers.
• Craft technical visions by mapping requirements to technical capabilities and translate into functional designs and technical specifications.
• Creation of solution design and as-built documentation for sign-off and ensuring quality future-proofed solutions.
• Lead technical resources for both onshore and offshore squad teams on Power Platform engagements, ensuring quality and timely completion.
• Assist in Pre-sales engagements, create estimates and designs for bespokesolutions, and develop go-to-market offering.
• Work with the PM to plan and coordinate project sprints and development efforts across the dev team.
• Facilitate product demo’s and training sessions.
• Mentor junior consultants and share best practices.
• Coordinate testing, deployments and production support, as well as troubleshoot issues and optimize performance.
• Perform any other duties, tasks or projects may be assigned and demonstrate commitment and behaviours consistent with NCS values.
• Ability to work within a newly created practice as internal processes and frameworks are defined.
• Ability to be a mentor project team members while juggling customer and internal demands.
• Able to prioritise a variety of tasks across multiple clients and delivery tasks
• Travel flexibility to go meet and work with on delivering solutions to our customers

• A strong track record in delivering quality Power Platform outcomes with demonstrable project success within large scale, enterprise-level IT projects, end-to-end
• Strong Power Apps background and experience
• Highly developed written communication ability, including production of high-quality technical artefacts and presales contributions (proposals, presentations, SOWs) writing requirements, configuration, testing and deployment documents
• Expert organisational skills; experience working in a high volume and demanding professional environment with proven capacity to prioritise, multi-task and always work with a client-focused approach
• Experience developing bespoke Power Platform offerings and associated go to market plans
• Experience working within an agile delivery framework
• Expert organisational skills: experience working in a high volume and demanding professional environment with proven capacity to prioritise, multi-task and always work with a client-focused approach
• IT Degree or equivalent in employment experience
• Microsoft certified in D365/Power Platform

• Apigee X Expertise: Strong hands-on experience designing, engineering, and operating Apigee X (or Apigee Edge) in enterprise environments.
• GCP Infrastructure & Security: Deep experience across GCP platform services (IAM, Cloud KMS, Secret Manager, Cloud Run, Cloud Logging) and cloud networking (VPC, Private Service Connect, ILB, Private Service Access).
• Vertex AI Integration: Practical experience integrating Vertex AI or managed GCP ML services through secure enterprise platform paths.
• Identity & Security Protocols: Strong mastery of REST, OpenAPI, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT validation, and federated identity integration.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep proficiency with Terraform and modern GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to Apigee LLM policies (token quotas, prompt limits, model operation groups) or Google Cloud Model Armor / Cloud DLP.
• Experience with enterprise observability toolsets (Dynatrace, ELK, or Cortex XSIAM) or BigQuery log analytics.
• Familiarity with FinOps cost-allocation labeling, billing exports, or consumer-level chargeback models for AI workloads.
• Exposure to cross-cloud AI gateway patterns (e.g., AWS Bedrock, AWS SigV4) or Model Context Protocol (MCP) / agentic AI frameworks.

Why NCS?

This is a place for people who like to get stuck in, bring ideas to life and make things happen. You'll work alongside experienced people who care about what they do, contribute to meaningful work and have the support to keep learning and grow your career. Whether you want to deepen your expertise, explore something new or take your career in a different direction, there's room to make it your own. We value Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership and Unity - bringing curiosity, collaboration and accountability to the way we work with our clients and each other.

Ready to make extraordinary happen?

We celebrate diversity and inclusion

We value different perspectives, experiences and strengths our people bring. We're committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to contribute, grow and succeed, and to providing equal employment opportunities and reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Applicants will need valid Australian work rights and may be required to undergo relevant background, probity and police checks.

Agencies: NCS accepts candidate submissions only from agencies on our preferred supplier panel through the NCS Agency Portal.